Box Hill Timetable - term 2

29/4 - What's the point (What do we want from our birth experience? A discussion about normal birth)

6/5 - Free Discussion

13/5 - Prenatal Testing (What tests are available. Why are they important? What is necessary, what isn't?)

20/5 - Free Discussion

27/5 - Being a student midwife (A student midwife will tell us about needing to follow women through their pregnancy and attend a certain number of births. What mothers can do to help student midwives and what they can expect from a student midwife following their pregnancy).

3/6 - Free Discussion

10/6 - Breastfeeeding discussion (Sharing milk, particularly with regard to having surgery when still nursing a baby or toddler).

17/6 - Free Disussion

24/6 - Know Your Midwife Program at Box Hill (we're hoping to have a guest speaker from Box Hill hospital to tell us about the KYM program)

Conference call for BaBs leaders

Today BaBs had a conference call meeting, with leaders coming together by telephone or Skype. We had people at Melbourne sites, as well as Mt Macedon (Vic), and Stanthorpe (Qld).

The meeting was called to hear from facilitators and other group leaders, and to identify any issues that need further work in some or all of the groups. These include:

Preparing and supporting new group facilitators, as facilitators step down and move on from babs
Attracting midwives and encouraging them to be involved
Protecting people from conflict of interest issues
Maintaining the focus of babs on peer support for mothers during pregnancy and the first year
Sharing plans and processes between groups.

As an outcome of todays meeting, we plan to review guidelines and revise to reflect the current expressed needs of group leaders.

We look forward to future conference calls for babs leaders.

Wagga BaBs

Wagga Birthing and Babies Support Group (BaBs) offers discussion, information, education and support for people in our community regarding the issues of pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Everyone is welcome to join us at our friendly, informative meetings. If you are pregnant, a new mum or dad, or seeking information about your birth choices, please contact us or come along to a meeting to share and learn in a supportive environment about birthing and baby topics.

We meet each month in the Parents as Teachers Centre, Tolland Public School, cnr Raye and Parkhurst Sts, Tolland. Upcoming meetings for 2009 include:

Date: Wednesday 25 March
Time: 12pm to 2:45pm (approx)
Topic: Special screening of the documentary “The Business of Being Born”

Date: Tuesday 28 April
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm (approx)
Topic: Preparing for Birth

Date: Tuesday 26 May
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm (approx)
Topic: Writing a Birth Plan – Help or Hindrance?

Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm (approx)
Topic: Natural Birth – Why Bother?


Further information about each session may be obtained via our Facebook site (search for Wagga BaBs), by emailing waggababs@gmail.com or calling Kirsty 0401 523 121 or Jenny 0418 205 262. Please RSVP via phone or email by 5pm on the day prior to each meeting to help with our planning.

Wagga BaBs is an initiative of the Wagga Birth Choices Action Group, affiliated with the Maternity Coalition: www.maternitycoalition.org.au.